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20 Rectangular Fangding-shaped Censer

with four cabriole legs and two twisted-rope handles and with eight
auspicious emblems (bajixiang) decor

Ming dynasty, late sixteenth - early seventeenth century
Cast bronze with cast decoration with cold-worked details and with a cast
thread-relief mark in standard-script (kaishu) characters reading Da Ming
Xuandenian zhi in a recessed rectangular cartouche on the base
8.3 centimeter width
Clague Collection Number 204

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